Matthew Sprosty

Matthew Sprosty is an award-winning playwright and

screenwriter living in Bay Village, Ohio. A graduate with a

BFA in Playwriting from Ohio University, Sprosty has had

various professional productions across the country, with

his play Malicious Bunny being rewarded the most critical

praise. Audiences and critics alike compliment Sprosty's

strength in dialogue, his characters’ verisimilitude and his

penchant for blending genres. Altogether, the music

videos for which he wrote treatments (for artists such as

Timbaland, Katy Perry, Neon Trees, among others) have

over half a billion views on YouTube. The Dead Life is his

first novel.